Philip Agee

former CIA officer

Died:January 7, 2008
(Havana, Cuba)

Best Known as:a former CIA officer who turned against the agency

A former CIA officer who turned against the agency and exposed many
undercover agents overseas for nearly 40 years. He joined the CIA in 1957,
and worked undercover for eight years after three years of military
training, but he became disillusioned with the agency and its covert
intelligence work. The United States viewed Agee as a traitor, requested
his expulsion from several countries, and rescinded his passport. Agee
lived in Germany and Cuba for the most part, and operated a website,
cubalinda.com. He wrote a book in 1975, “Inside the Company: CIA Diary,”
that exposed 250 American officers, prompting Congress to pass the
Intelligence Identities Protection Act in 1982.